Articles tagged under: Drugs

Farmer Arrested for Cultivating Marijuana in Field and Possessing Dried Cannabis at Home

March 27, 2025
Farmer Arrested for Cultivating Marijuana in Field and Possessing Dried Cannabis at Home

Shahera: A farmer from Nada village in Shahera taluka has been arrested after a raid by the Special Operations Group (SOG) revealed he was cultivating marijuana (Ganja) plants in his field and possessing dried cannabis at his residence. Acting on a tip-off that Mangalsinh Hirabhai Patel, a resident of Nada village, was growing marijuana in his field and selling dried cannabis from his home, the SOG team conducted a raid. During the raid, they discovered 21 live marijuana plants growing amongst ...Read More

Gujarat Govt to Establish Fund for Cancer and Drug Addiction Treatment Infrastructure

March 26, 2025
Gujarat Govt to Establish Fund for Cancer and Drug Addiction Treatment Infrastructure

Gandhinagar: Gujarat Govt  is going to introduce a bill in the State assembly in attempt to improve infrastructure for cancer and drug addiction treatment with the introduction of a new bill to establish a dedicated fund. The Gujarat State Cancer and Drug Addiction Treatment Infrastructure Fund Bill, 2025, proposes the creation of a fund to support the development of facilities for the treatment of individuals affected by cancer and drug addiction. The bill outlines the establishment of the ...Read More

Surat Crime Branch seizes MD drugs worth Rs 37 lakh; arrests seven

June 25, 2024
Surat Crime Branch seizes MD drugs worth Rs 37 lakh; arrests seven

Surat: The Surat Crime Branch arrested seven people in connection with the mephedrone(MD) drug racket. The team apprehended two individuals at Surat Railway Station with 250 grams of MD drugs. Subsequent raids at five different locations in Surat today uncovered around 100 grams of MD drugs, bringing the total seized drugs and items worth ₹37.37 lakh. Surat Crime Branch officials had received a tip-off that two people were transporting drugs on the evening Suryanagari train to Surat. Upon t...Read More

Ahmedabad Crime Branch seizes drugs worth Rs 3.5 cr hidden in parcel from US

June 22, 2024
Ahmedabad Crime Branch seizes drugs worth Rs 3.5 cr hidden in parcel from US

Ahmedabad: The Ahmedabad Crime Branch intercepted a parcel from the United States of America at the foreign post office and found hybrid ganja and liquid drugs worth ₹3.50 crore. The seizure was part of 58 parcels from Canada and America, in which drugs were concealed with diapers and sarees. This courier from the US was found to be linked to a previous shipment containing hybrid ganja and liquid drugs. Upon learning of this, the Ahmedabad Crime Branch seized the parcel, preventing the deli...Read More

BSF recovers 5 packets of drugs from islands off Jakhau Coast

May 29, 2023
BSF recovers 5 packets of drugs from islands off Jakhau Coast

Bhuj: The Border Security Force (BSF) in a search operation on Sunday, recovered five packets of drugs, each weighing approximately 01 kg, from two different isolated bets off the Jakhau Coast in Bhuj. According to a statement released by BSF, "First packet was recovered from Luna bet, about 08 km off Jakhau Coast, is similar to an earlier recovered packet of Charas and was packed in plastic packing having 'Afghan Product' printed on it. Other 04 packets were recovered from Khidrat bet, about...Read More

713 kg MD drug worth Rs 2000 crore recovered from Central Gujarat

August 17, 2022
713 kg MD drug worth Rs 2000 crore recovered from Central Gujarat

Vadodara: Gujarat ATS and Anti-Narcotics cell of Mumbai have seized MDMA drug worth Rs 2000 Crore from Vadodara and Ankleshwar respectively. A total of 713 kg of Mephedrone (MD) drug was seized in a separate raid conducted on 16th August. Gujarat ATS recovered 200kg of MDMA drug that was being prepared illegally in a factory near Moksi village in Vadodara. ATS DIG Dipen Bhadran said MDMA drugs were being prepared under the guise of making chemicals. There is a possibility that the drug may h...Read More

SOG teams find more than 113 drug packets at Somnath coast

August 05, 2022
SOG teams find more than 113 drug packets at Somnath coast

Prabhas Patan: The SOG (Special Operations Group) team found more than 113 packets of drugs from the seashore of Somnath. As many as ten SOG teams had conducted a search operation in Gir Somnath district after finding suspicious packets from Mangrol seashore. Total 160 suspicious packets were found from around the seashore from Adri village of Sutrapada to Lati Kadvar. The packets were sent to FSL and the substance was found to be 'Charas' SOG conducted another search operation from Verava...Read More

Surat DCB seize Rs 6.07 lakh worth of MD drug hidden among mosquito repellent coils

July 21, 2022
Surat DCB seize Rs 6.07 lakh worth of MD drug hidden among mosquito repellent coils

Surat: The Surat Detection of Crime Branch (DCB) has nabbed an infamous drug dealer from Chokbajar Madarivad, Azahruddin alias Ajju, and his partner with Rs 6.07 lakh worth of 60.73 gram of MD drug camouflaged among mosquito repellent coils. The DCB had arranged a watch at Parvat Patiya Kangaroo circle on Tuesday night after receiving a tip-off that Azahruddin, fruit dealer Mohammed Haroon Rashid Ahmed Rine (resident of Khanpura, Limbayat), who also works as a drug dealer, and Abdul Rehman Sh...Read More

Crime Branch uses boats in operation to capture notorious Cocaine case accused Ibrahim

July 19, 2022
Crime Branch uses boats in operation to capture notorious Cocaine case accused Ibrahim

Surat: The Surat Detection of Crime Branch had to use boats in order to nab cocaine case accused Ismail (Ibrahim) Gurjar. The police had received a tip-off that the supplier of MD drugs and cocaine, Ismail (Ibrahim) Gurjar, was sitting near the Causeway. When Crime Branch raided the spot, Ismail hid amongst the bushes near the Causeway. At this time, the Crime Branch launched a search operation for the drug peddler using a boat. When Ismail saw the police approaching, he told a boatman that s...Read More

Mundra Port narcotics case: Gujarat ATS nabs one from Punjab

July 18, 2022
Mundra Port narcotics case: Gujarat ATS nabs one from Punjab

Kutch: A man was arrested from Punjab on Sunday in connection to the seizure of heroin worth Rs 376 core by the Gujarat Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) near Munda Port on July 12. As per Prosecutor Kalpesh Goswami, the accused Deepak Kingar was produced before the Special Court of Justice Chirag Shah, who remanded him to the custody of Gujarat ATS till July 27. The ATS had demanded 14 days of custody but the court granted only 10 days. The Gujarat ATS on July 12, had seized about 70 kg of he...Read More